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Archive for November, 2010

LeRoy Butler Says Favre Got Childress Fired

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre had yet another miserable game on Sunday. One week after posting a rating of 44.5 in a loss to the Chicago Bears, Favre completed 17 of 38 passes for just over 200 yards and threw another interception in a loss to his former team, the ...

Jimmie Johnson Continues His NASCAR Dominance And Claims Fifth-Consecutive Title

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

History was made this past Sunday when Jimmie Johnson became the first driver in NASCAR’s 53-year history to have won five-consecutive Sprint Cup Series Championships.  Entering the final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Johnson trailed Denny Hamlin by 15 points but was able to run a mistake-free race and finish second ...

Tom Brady Gets the Best of Peyton Manning…Again

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Yesterday Tom Brady’s New England Patriots and Peyton Manning’s Indianapolis Colts got together in Foxboro in one of the most anticipated games of the season.  For Peyton Manning, the result was a little too familiar. Just like so many other times before, Tom Brady’s Patriots got the better of Manning’s ...

Bernard Pollard: “We are pros and we are not playing like it. We continue to make the dumbest mistakes, the dumbest, and you can’t sugarcoat that.”

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

For the third week in a row, the Houston Texans suffered another last-minute loss leaving them with a bitter taste in their mouths and on the fringe of the AFC playoff race.  The Texans rallied from a 16-point deficit to go up by one point with just over two minutes ...

After Being Blanked by the Bears, Brandon Marshall and the Miami Dolphins are in Trouble in the AFC Playoff Picture

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

With just one game remaining in Week 11 of the NFL, it's getting to be about that time when folks start breaking down the myriad playoff scenarios in each conference. At 5-5, are the Miami Dolphins out of it? In all likelihood, they're cooked in the AFC East division, as ...

Ryan Who? Tolbert Finds Himself in San Diego Spotlight

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Ryan Mathews was supposed to be the main man in San Diego. With feature running backs LaDainian Tomlinson and Michael Turner no longer with the organization, the Chargers moved up in the NFL Draft to select Mathews, from Fresno State, with the No. 12 overall pick. Like many rookies, however, Mathews' ...

Jay Cutler Says He Doesn’t Need to Defend the Bears’ 7-3 Record

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

The Chicago Bears kicked off Week 11 of the NFL season with a bang on Thursday night, particularly defensively. Da Bears put the clamps on a Miami team that was down to its third quarterback in Tyler Thigpen. Therein lies the rub. While a victory over the Dolphins might have looked ...

Former Eagles Lineman Brian Baldinger on Intentionally Breaking Eric Swann’s Ankle: “I had talked about it and actually had a game-plan for it, and I’m actually pretty proud of it.”

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Ever wondered what happens at the bottom of scrums during NFL games? Like if players twist, scratch, claw, or do other unnecessarily rough things to one another? Or even if players really put bounties on opposing players before games, and things of that nature?  I suspect that they do, but ...

Felix Hernandez Wins the Cy Young Award, Becoming King of AL Pitchers

Friday, November 19th, 2010

In what some believe was a stunning decision, the Seattle Mariners’ starting pitcher Felix Hernandez won the American League Cy Young Award with a 13-12 record.  People had been talking about him winning the award, but many were worried about the voters focusing too much on win-loss records, which proved ...

The Sun Is Setting Already in Phoenix

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Last season the Suns got all the way to the Western Conference Finals before ultimately losing to the World Champs. This offseason the Suns experienced quite a makeover with their roster and they have struggled out of the gate. With Amar'e Stoudemire in the Big Apple and Steve Nash dealing ...